Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook - 4 to 6 Months

4 to 6 Months

When your baby is four months old, he or she is going to begin to show signs of readiness for solid food that you can intersperse with breast milk. Some of the signs to look out for include:

•          Holding his or her head up
• Sits well on a baby chair
• Begins to make chewing motions
• Begins to show interest in food
•  Can close his or her mouth around a small spoon
•   Can move his or her tongue back and forth
•  Seems hungry even after eight to ten feedings of breast milk a day
•   Has begun teething

At this point, you can begin to introduce soft food or purees one teaspoon at a time with one feeding a day like mashed bananas or mashed carrots while still breastfeeding your baby.

If your baby doesn’t seem all that interested in the food, let him or her smell and taste the food until he or she warms to the idea of eating solid food. To soften the food further or to make it more familiar to the baby, you can add a little bit of breast milk.

When feeding your baby new kinds of food, it is best to not feed them the same kind of food for another three days so that you can observe for any allergic reactions. That’s why it is best to introduce food one at a time with at least three days in between.

This is an excerpt from the book: Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook